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New York Counties
 Click Image to Enlarge New York CountiesThere are 62 counties in the State of New York. The first twelve counties in New York were created immediately after the British annexation of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, although two of these counties have since been abolished. The most recent county formation in New York was in 1912, when Bronx County was created from the portions of New York City that had been annexed from Westchester County. New York's counties are named for a variety of Native American words, British provinces, cities, and royalty, early American statesmen and generals, and state politicians. |
Chautauqua County, New YorkChautauqua County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County Namea contraction of a Seneca Indian word meaning "where the fish was taken out" Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryChautauqua County was created by partition of Genesee County on 1808-03-11. This partition was performed under
the same terms that produced Cattaraugus and Niagara Counties. The partition was performed for political purposes,
but the counties were not properly organized, so they were all controlled as part of Niagara County. Chautauqua County, the western gateway to New York State, occupies the extreme southwest corner of our state. With its two cities, Jamestown and Dunkirk, its twenty-seven towns and fifteen villages, it covers 1,065 square miles of Lake Erie shoreline, there is no place in the county more than twenty-five miles from open water. Full History at NYSAC History of Chautauqua County by Andrew W. Young GeographyChautauqua County, in the southwestern corner of New York State, along the New York-Pennsylvania border, is the
westernmost of New York's counties. Chautauqua Lake is located in the center of the county, and Lake Erie is its
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local.
And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions,
reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history. Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally." |
